Load Testing

Firstly, install Artillery .

npm install -g artillery@latest

Optional: set the environment variable ARTILLERY_CLOUD_API_KEY to your Artillery Cloud API  key. This is only needed in order for the results to report to Artillery Cloud.

Run the load tests against our production environment from your machine with the following command:

pnpm --filter=core load-test
pnpm --filter=core load-test --report # send test metrics to Artillery Cloud in real time

This command will spawn many virtual users (vusers) that interact with the production application by performing a series of pre-configured tasks. The number of vusers starts small and slowly ramps up until the test reaches a “spike phase” which simulates a sudden and large increase in traffic.

Currently each vuser visits the /forgot and /login pages before it is terminated. The tests will soon use select tests from our end-to-end test suite to simulate more realistic user behaviors.